As I complained on the original thread a year ago, BEA's attention to the public interest regarding information about the search for AF447 is about 2 on a scale of 10. The promised assessment of prior and future search phases, supposedly to be announced in October, has never arrived, though decisions are clearly being made that reportedly lead to a February 2011 Phase 4 startup. Sources are news outlets; BEA is silent.
A great deal of work went into BEA's "
Drift Report" last year. I'm certain a great deal of work has gone into this latest assessment, too: How can you book or contract AUVs and ROVs only 60 to 90 days out without a plan and defined area(s) to search? It will be interesting to see where they choose to search More interesting would be a report on WHY they decided on those places.
Feels like a gang of school children playing marbles, but the fellows with the big marbles won't share, so the rest sit around and watch and get pis sed off. Is the silence because there are lawyers, corporations, and vested interests in the game, and information needs to be carefully groomed and each step carefully staged? Where is the transparency and openness? The search for the truth? Why adversarial instead of collegial? I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but I do hate sitting around waiting for groomed data and pablum... In the Internet age, there are only poor excuses for not sharing.
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